White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)

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The white rhino is after the three elephant species is the fourth largest land mammal. It has a body length of 3 to 4 m, a shoulder height of 160 to 200 cm and a weight of 1,400 kg in 3500 and is also larger than all other rhino species. It trains two horns, of which the front over a length of 150 cm is reached, the rear however is much smaller. The lower lip has a horny edge to replace the missing front teeth and to help the animals tear off the grass diet.

The southern white rhino was once in a belt stretching from Angola and Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe to Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal. Today it is scattered in fragments over many protected areas of Southern Africa. The northern white rhino was distributed to the Congo and Uganda in Chad and the Sudan. The ancient Egyptians are still met wild in the Nile Valley. In the recent period, its population was in the wild only on the Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) and is limited there by a low point in the 1970s, initially recovered to about 40 copies.

The white rhino preferred as a grass-eater with grass and low bushes overgrown terrain, in the need to adequately cover and shady bush and forest thickets are interspersed. It prefers the vicinity of water bodies. Is this not the case, it takes regular walks to appropriate water bodies and Suhl. It is mostly diurnal, but avoiding the direct burning hot sun.